Aravind Jayan - “The anxiety of being watched has increased”
Hindustan TimesHow did you end up making your debut as a novelist with a book around a sex scandal? The values assigned to either of these places in the book, though, are mostly just projections of the narrator’s state-of-mind rather than anything objective. 208pp, ₹599; Serpent’s Tail Your narrator, Sreenath’s unnamed younger brother, is so funny; he could easily be a stand-up comic. It seemed to me that the more interesting plot line was for the narrator to covet his friend’s seemingly accepting – and the way he sees it – “sophisticated” family while his own became increasingly fractured. But I also believe Sreenath would have backed the narrator unequivocally, that the brothers might have come closer together, and that the narrator would have found some semblance of continued family there.
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